While you're shopping on Prime Day, these Amazon warehouse workers will be striking

Prime Day isn't a cause for celebration for the backbone of Amazon, its fulfillment warehouse workers.

Workers at an Amazon warehouse in Shakopee, Minnesota, plan to strike for six hours on Prime Day, July 15, to call for job security and eased productivity quotas. According to a Bloomberg report, the strike isn't expected to significantly disrupt fulfillment, though it is highlighting Amazon's treatment of its warehouse workers on one of its biggest shopping days of the year.

One worker told Bloomberg that that is exactly the idea: 

Analysts estimate that Amazon made $1.5 - $2 billion in sales on Prime Day 2018. That number is set to increase, as Prime "Day" is extending from last year's 36-hour event to a two-day shopping extravaganza this year. Last year, Amazon said that it shipped over 100 million products. Read more...

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